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The Crown gets a batch of season 4 character posters

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Following on from this week’s trailer, a batch of character posters for season 4 of The Crown have been released and feature Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman), Prince Philip (Tobias Menzies), Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor), Lady Diana Spencer (Emma Corrin), Princess Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter), Princess Anne (Erin Doherty), and Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson); take a […]

Movie Review – Rebecca (2020)

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Rebecca, 2020. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Keeley Hawes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley, Anna Dowd and Bill Paterson. SYNOPSIS: Manderley is the ancestral country seat of Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer). Shrouded in secrets, rife with scandal and cloaked in tragedy it sits precariously overlooking a ravaged coast line. It […]

A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting is perfect for Halloween | Video Review

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A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting, 2020. Directed by Rachel Talalay. Starring Tamara Smart, Oona Laurence, Indya Moore, and Tom Felton. As someone who appreciates family-friendly horror films, our critic EJ Moreno offers up a unique take on A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting. This Rachel Talalay-directed film makes for a perfect Halloween viewing with […]

Mike Flanagan on whether there will be a third season following the release of The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Over the weekend, Netflix released The Haunting of Bly Manor, the second chapter in The Haunting… anthology series and the follow-up to 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House. Now, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, executive producers Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy discussed the possibility of a third season in the horror series, and while there is nothing official […]

Movie Review – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

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The Trial of the Chicago 7, 2020. Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin. Starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Jeremy Strong, Daniel Flaherty, and Noah Robbins. SYNOPSIS: In 1969 for one hundred and fifty one days seven men went […]

Movie Review – Rebecca (2020)

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Rebecca, 2020. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keeley Hawes, Jane Lapotaire, Lucy Russell, Bryony Miller, Sam Riley, Bill Paterson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Mark Lewis Jones, Jeff Rawle, John Hollingworth, Ben Crompton, and Ann Dowd. SYNOPSIS: A young newlywed arrives at her husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English […]

First trailer for Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close

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Netflix has debuted the first trailer and a poster for Ron Howard’s upcoming drama Hillbilly Elegy. Based on J.D. Vance’s memoir of the same name, the film follows three generations of an Appalachian family through their unique struggles and features a cast that includes Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, and Owen Asztalos; […]

Are The Haunting of Bly Manor team about to tackle The Woman in Black for Netflix?

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With viewers currently devouring the ‘come for the scares, stay for the heart’ brilliance of Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, reports have emerged that the team behind that and last year’s The Haunting of Hill House are set to take on Susan Hill’s 1983 novel The Woman in Black as their next exercise in […]

Exclusive Interview – Oswin Benjamin discusses The Forty-Year-Old-Version

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Oswin Benjamin has been in the music industry over ten years and was born in Brooklyn but raised upstate in Newsburg, New York. He has appeared and collaborated with musicians like Robert Glasper, Royce da 5’9, Lupe Fiasco, Chris Rivers and Styles P of The Lox. His role as D in The Forty-Year-Old-Version represents Oswin’s […]